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I had no idea - just saw it on Nextdoor today. The carjacking actually failed (as a surprising number of them do), nobody was hurt, and 4 of the 5 perps were apprehended. The entire thing was captured on one of those increasingly common door cameras. So I know which house it was in front of (actually 5 doors down from me, not RIGHT in front of my house). I don't know who was in the targeted vehicle, though. Not, I think, a resident of that house from the way it was reported.
A woman was parking her minivan when a white car came swooping down from the other direction and parked off her left front fender, apparently trying to cut her off. Two guys jump out and approach both sides of her vehicle. Then for some reason they jump back in the car and move it forward, smashing into the drivers side of her van. I guess they were trying to do a better job of immobilizing it? Which they did, but in the process they also disabled their own car. Then FIVE guys jump out of the white car and flee. Running south, so they ran right past our house. Reportedly the woman was loudly honking her horn, which may have spooked them. Or they may have just realized that the cars were now locked together so neither one could be driven.
Police showed up (as they usually do, at least in my neighborhood) and quickly apprehended 4 of the 5 guys, reportedly with the help of a helicopter. There is even a picture of police tape blocking off part of our block. But it's gone now, as are both of the vehicles involved. Richard was working outside most of the afternoon and evening putting up Christmas decorations and he knew nothing about it, so it probably happened in the morning before he was up.
ETA 4pm. Talked with the neighbors and found out that the victim was the sister of my next door neighbor, Pat! It was on WCCO last night, including the doorbell video and an interview with Pat. You can see it all here. About 40 seconds into the segment there is a brief, random shot of both of our vehicles parked on the street in front of our house (although that's not quite where the incident took place).
A woman was parking her minivan when a white car came swooping down from the other direction and parked off her left front fender, apparently trying to cut her off. Two guys jump out and approach both sides of her vehicle. Then for some reason they jump back in the car and move it forward, smashing into the drivers side of her van. I guess they were trying to do a better job of immobilizing it? Which they did, but in the process they also disabled their own car. Then FIVE guys jump out of the white car and flee. Running south, so they ran right past our house. Reportedly the woman was loudly honking her horn, which may have spooked them. Or they may have just realized that the cars were now locked together so neither one could be driven.
Police showed up (as they usually do, at least in my neighborhood) and quickly apprehended 4 of the 5 guys, reportedly with the help of a helicopter. There is even a picture of police tape blocking off part of our block. But it's gone now, as are both of the vehicles involved. Richard was working outside most of the afternoon and evening putting up Christmas decorations and he knew nothing about it, so it probably happened in the morning before he was up.
ETA 4pm. Talked with the neighbors and found out that the victim was the sister of my next door neighbor, Pat! It was on WCCO last night, including the doorbell video and an interview with Pat. You can see it all here. About 40 seconds into the segment there is a brief, random shot of both of our vehicles parked on the street in front of our house (although that's not quite where the incident took place).
